Q.1 Answer the following questions
1. Why did the Europeans feel the need to discover a new sea route to India?
2. Who were the first and the last Europeans to arrive in India?
3. Between whom was the Battle of Plassey fought? What were its results?
4. Why did Battle of Buxar occur? What was its result?
5. How did the Portuguese rule come to an end?
Q2. Fill in the Blanks
1. _____was the Italian who accepted the challenge to discover the
sea route to India.
2. Robert Clive conspired to murder______
Answers
Answer:
1 The Ottoman Turks charged Christian high fees to get through the route. Apart from this, the route was also unsafe due to the marauding bands of Tatar and the Mongols. Thus, the Europeans felt the need to discover new sea routes to India.
Explanation:
2 Arrival of the French
The last European people to arrive in India were the French. The French East India Company was formed in 1664 AD during the reign of King Louis XIV to trade with India. In 1668 AD the French established their first factory at Surat and in 1669 AD established another French factory at Masaulipatam
3 The Battle of Plassey was a major battle that took place on 23 June 1757 at Palashi, Bengal. It was an important British East India Company victory over the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies. ... The battle was between Siraj ud-Daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal, and the British East India Company.
4 The battle resulted in the 1765 Treaty of Allahabad, in which the Mughal Emperor surrendered sovereignty of Bengal to the British. Lord Robert Clive, the victor at the Plassey, became the first governor of Bengal. Losses: British East India Company, fewer than 1,000 casualties of 8,000; Indian states, 6,000 of 35,000.
5 Finally, in December 1961, India militarily invaded the remaining Portuguese possessions of Goa and Damaon, where regardless of the odds the Portuguese forces put up a fight. ... The Governor of Portuguese India signed the Instrument of Surrender on 19 December 1961, ending 450 years of Portuguese rule in India.
Answer:
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Explanation:
1. The land route was expensive as europeans had to pay high tariffs to the ottoman empire in order to trade with India.The Europeans did not like to give away money to the ottoman empire as there foreign relations with the ottomans were bad
2. The Portuguese came first and the french came last.
3.The Battle of Plassey was fought between the Sultanate of Bengal and the English East India Company.
4. The EEIC started demanding more and more money as gifts from Mir Qasim this made him upset and the britisher had ousted Mir Jaffar from power for disobeying him so he decide to fight the British before they could oust him out of power.
5. The Portuguese had lost a lot of land because of the wars they had fought with the British and now held only a few areas of land be Goa and the now present union territories of Daman and Diu & Dadra and Nagar Haveli.After Independence from British Rule India requested the Portuguese to return Goa to India the Portuguese however refused. The people of Goa were upset and started protesting and decided to due to this the Portuguese opened fire this drew condemnation from India.The Indian armed forces attacked Goa and the RSS helped the Army by providing supplies.The Portuguese being outnumbered had no choice but to surrender and The Governor of Portuguese India signed the Instrument of Surrender on 19 December 1961, ending 450 years of Portuguese rule in India.
II) Fill in the blanks
1) Marco Polo
2) Nawab Siraj ud Daulah